Upper-Intermediate 📚 Vocabulary · #1204 of 1319

accumulate (v.)

to gather gradually

Examples

  • Accumulate wealth.

Key rules

  • Accumulate means gather or pile up gradually
  • Accumulate wealth, accumulate debt
  • Accumulation is the noun
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